Discosiphonella mammilosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscosiphonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Discosiphonella mammilosus on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
18 occurrences- Permian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
7 formations
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation3
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation3
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation3
- Capitan Formation3
- Djebel Tebaga Formation1
- Oum el Afia Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Discosiphonella mammilosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discosiphonella mammilosus and its relatives
PermianWhere Discosiphonella mammilosus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Colospongia cortexifera12 sites
- Spica spica12 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata10 sites
- Intratubospongia osiensis9 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai8 sites
- Prestellispongia permica8 sites
- Cystothalamia conica7 sites
- Stellispongiella bacilla7 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata6 sites
- Palaeoneilo tebagaensis6 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata6 sites
- Prestellispongia paula6 sites
- Pseudoguadalupia alveolaris6 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata5 sites
- Girtyocoelia beedei5 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta5 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata5 sites
- Subascosymplegma oussifensis5 sites
- Graminospongia girtyi4 sites
- Imperatoria voluta4 sites
- Nuculopsis alta4 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata4 sites
- Radiofibra lineata4 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Discosiphonella mammilosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Upper Permian segmented sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia13
- Sponges of the Permian Upper Capitan Limestone, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas3
- Sponges from the Wordian (middle Permian) of the Las Delicias Formation, Coahuila, northwestern Mexico1
- Monographie paleontologique des affleurements permiens du Djebel Tebaga (Sud Tunisien)1
Each of the 18 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Discosiphonella mammilosus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discosiphonella mammilosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiscosiphonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1943)